In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.
In Ancient Christian Ecopoetics, Virginia Burrus facilitates a provocative encounter between ancient Christian theology and contemporary ecological thought.
Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. She is author of Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects and The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography, both available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Introduction I. BEGINNING AGAIN WITH KHORA: TRACES OF A DARK COSMOLOGY Prelude: Anticipations of an Eco-Chorology Dreaming Khora: Plato's Timaeus Interlude: Fragments of an Eco-Chorology Khroric Legacies: Readers of Timaeus and Genesis Interlude: Beginning Again with Scripture In/Conclusion: Khora, God, Materiality Postlude: Beginnings, Again II. QUEERING CREATION: HAGIOGRAPHY WITHOUT HUMANS Prelude: Ecocriticism as Queer Theory Before Hagiography, Autozoography: The Life of Plotinus Queerly Ecological: The Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt Interlude: Desertification Holy Disfigurations: The Life of Syncletica Saint as Posthuman Assemblage: The Life of Simeon the Stylite Interlude: Performance Art In/Conclusion: Saints and Other Queer Creatures Postlude: A Tough Love III. Things and Practices: Arts of Coexistence Prelude: Theorizing Things Things: Relics and Icons in an Animate World Things: Architecture, Landscape, Cosmos : Fragments of a Material Theology of Things Things: Rhetoric and Performativity in Basil's Hexaemeron Desiring Things: Contemplation, Creation, and God in Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius : Words and Things /Conclusion: Things, Practices, Piety : The Things That Matter Epilogue: Worm Stories Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
Introduction I. BEGINNING AGAIN WITH KHORA: TRACES OF A DARK COSMOLOGY Prelude: Anticipations of an Eco-Chorology Dreaming Khora: Plato's Timaeus Interlude: Fragments of an Eco-Chorology Khroric Legacies: Readers of Timaeus and Genesis Interlude: Beginning Again with Scripture In/Conclusion: Khora, God, Materiality Postlude: Beginnings, Again II. QUEERING CREATION: HAGIOGRAPHY WITHOUT HUMANS Prelude: Ecocriticism as Queer Theory Before Hagiography, Autozoography: The Life of Plotinus Queerly Ecological: The Lives of Antony, Paul, and Mary of Egypt Interlude: Desertification Holy Disfigurations: The Life of Syncletica Saint as Posthuman Assemblage: The Life of Simeon the Stylite Interlude: Performance Art In/Conclusion: Saints and Other Queer Creatures Postlude: A Tough Love III. Things and Practices: Arts of Coexistence Prelude: Theorizing Things Things: Relics and Icons in an Animate World Things: Architecture, Landscape, Cosmos : Fragments of a Material Theology of Things Things: Rhetoric and Performativity in Basil's Hexaemeron Desiring Things: Contemplation, Creation, and God in Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius : Words and Things /Conclusion: Things, Practices, Piety : The Things That Matter Epilogue: Worm Stories Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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